OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Sedimentation and reworking of volcanic detritus in Frasnian and lower Famennian carbonate rocks of the Velbert Anticline (Rhenish Massif, Germany)	24
The Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary around the globe: a complement	18
Two new fossil Tetrigidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Caelifera) from the Grube Messel (Germany)	16
The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America	14
Geology and lithology of the Tagay-1 section at Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia), and description of Aplodontidae, Mylagaulidae and Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia)	14
Exoedaenodus schaubi Hürzeler, 1944 (Dimylidae, Mammalia) from the late Oligocene of Enspel/Germany	14
Depositional history of Devonian and Mississippian rocks from southern Mongolia: Stratigraphic and sedimentologic framework of a volcanic arc system	13
Amphilagus plicadentis (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Baikal region, Eastern Siberia)	12
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coal bearing unit: the Upper Triassic Nayband Formation, Tabas Block, East-Central Iran	11
A dance fly (Empididae: Hilarempis Bezzi) from the Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte (Early Miocene, New Zealand)	10
Pre-Quaternary maar lakes/volcanogenic lakes as Konservat Lagerstätten—Messel and beyond	9
Rugose corals across the Early-Middle Devonian boundary in southern Belgium	8
Drowning, extinction, and subsequent facies development of the Devonian Hönne Valley Reef (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)	8
The Permian–Triassic boundary section at Baghuk Mountain, Central Iran: carbonate microfacies and depositional environment	8
Palaeoecology and affinities of Nummipera eocenica burrows from the middle Eocene (late Lutetian) of Jiroft area, Central Iran	8
Global palaeobiogeographic distribution patterns of the Cenozoic pleurotomariid gastropods (Family: Pleurotomariidae Swainson, 1840)	8
A new discosorid and some other nautiloids from the Givetian of the Rhenish Massif, Germany	8
Organic carbon isotope stratigraphy of Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections in the Rhenish Mountains	8
Late Early to late Middle Pleistocene medium-sized deer from the Italian Peninsula: implications for taxonomy and biochronology	7
Fossil samaras of Acer L. (Sapindaceae) from the Upper Pliocene of western Yunnan, southwestern China	7
The Rhenish Massif: More than 150 years of research in a Variscan mountain chain	7
Fieldwork with Peter Königshof	7
Palaeozoic (Silurian–Devonian) cherts from the Balkan Terrane, western Bulgaria: geochemistry, biostratigraphy and depositional settings	7
Late early to early middle Eocene climate and vegetation change at Tastakh Lake (northern Yakutia, eastern Siberia)	7
Rosselia ichnofabrics from the Lower Ordovician of the Alborz Mountains (northern Iran): palaeoecology, palaeobiology and sedimentology	6

The non-apodiform Strisores (potoos, nightjars and allied birds) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze	6
A small assemblage of early Oligocene rodents and insectivores from the Sivas basin, Turkey	6
Cricetodontinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	6
Early Cretaceous Equisetites from Slovakia	6
New species from the early Eocene London Clay suggest an undetected early Eocene diversity of the Leptosomiformes, an avian clade that includes a living fossil from Madagascar	6
Middle Miocene trace fossils from the Tenes area (NW Algeria) and their palaeoenvironmental implications	6
Microscale analysis of the fish Knightia eocaena taphonomy: Implication of a preserved microbial community	5
The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit	5
Erinaceomorpha and Soricomorpha (Mammalia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia): A preliminary report	5
Correction to: Devonian to Mississippian strata of the Shine Jinst region revisited: Facies development and stratigraphy in southern Mongolia (Gobi Altai Terrane)	5
Facies, magnetic susceptibility and timing of the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval (Xom Nha Formation, Central Vietnam)	5
Revisiting the Silurian–Lower Devonian spiriferide and spiriferinide brachiopods from the Condroz Inlier and Ardenne Allochthon (Belgium): current data and perspectives	5
Lower and middle Famennian (Upper Devonian) conodont biostratigraphy from Compte section (Central Pyrenees, Spain)	5
Environmental, vegetational and climatic investigations during the Plio-Pleistocene in SW-Anatolia: A case study from the fluvio-lacustrine deposits in Uşak-Karahallı area	5
35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests	5
Plant fossils from the middle Siwalik of eastern Nepal and their climatic and phytogeographic significance	4
A new fossil fern of the Dryopteridaceae (Polypodiales) from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	4
Eocene sediments and a fresh to brackish water biota from the early rifting stage of the Upper Rhine Graben (west of oil field Landau, southwest Germany): implications for biostratigraphy, palaeoecolo	4
Vertebrate microremains from the Late Devonian (Famennian) of western Mongolia	4
The Miocene Tagay locality of Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia) – a multidisciplinary approach	4
First record of Pliocene (Zanclean to mid Piacenzian) marine deposits on Rhodes (Greece): implications for eastern Mediterranean palaeo(bio)geography	4
The Pliocene Ophisaurus (Anguidae) from Eastern Europe: new records and additions to the history of the genus and its palaeoenvironment	4
Correction to: Facies, magnetic susceptibility and timing of the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval (Xom Nha Formation, Central Vietnam)	4
Palaeoclimatic models - predicted changes in the potential Neogene distribution patterns of Phlebotomus similis and Phlebotomus sergenti (Insecta: Diptera: Psychodidae)	3
The identity of the Silurian retiolitine genera Paraplectograptus and Sagenograptoides (Graptoloidea, Retiolitinae)	3
Deep-time maar lakes and other volcanogenic lakes as Fossil-Lagerstätten – An overview	3
Early Priabonian Mesophyllum dominated coralline algal assemblage from coastal upwelling settings (Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin, Slovakia)	3
Foraminiferal palaeoecology of the Aptian/Albian deposits of the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin) in northeastern of Brazil	3
The tubarium construction in Holoretiolites, Neogothograptus and related taxa (Graptolithina, Retiolitinae): clues to their astogeny and species identification	3
An intriguing find of an early Middle Pleistocene European snow leopard, Panthera uncia pyrenaica ssp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae), from the Arago cave (Tautavel, Pyrénées-Orientales, France)	3
A tribute and memorial for Professor Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig (March 8th, 1955 – August 1st, 2023)	3
The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)	3
Late Quaternary shrews (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Priamurye (Russian Far East) according to data from Koridornaya Cave: species diversity and stratigraphical aspects	3
A stratigraphically significant new zosterophyllopsid from the Rhenish Lower Devonian (W Germany)	3
Pteridophytes as primary colonisers after catastrophic events through geological time and in recent history	3
First reelaborated Cretaceous batoid of the Early Miocene from Spain	3
The possible region of the Late Miocene split of the sandfly subgenus Transphlebotomus Artemiev and the early late Neogene to late Quaternary dispersal of the ancestor of Phlebotomus mascittii Grassi	3
The Devonian-Carboniferous transition at Borkewehr near Wocklum (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany) – a potential GSSP section	2
Pollen-feeding in a giant pelobatid tadpole from the late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany	2
Gliridae and Eomyidae (Rodentia) of the Miocene Tagay fauna (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	2
Euboeus mimonti Boieldieu, 1865, the oldest record of an extant species of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) and notes on other species identified as darkling beetles from the Late Pliocene of Willershausen	2
Early Paleogene precipitation patterns over East Asia: Was there a monsoon after all?	2
Modern brackish bryostromatolites (“bryoliths”) from Zeeland (Netherlands)	2
Devonian palaeoenvironmental dynamics in Colombia: An integrated sedimentological and geochemical exploration	2
The revision of fossil big-eyed bugs suggests a peculiar evolutionary history of a peculiar true bug family (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae)	2
Upper Devonian to Mississippian global environmental change and impact on conodonts	2
Benthic graptolites (Graptolithina, Pterobranchia) in the Miaolingian (Cambrian Series 3)	2
Parautochthonous nappes in the south-eastern Lahn-Dill area, induced by alpine-type nappe thrusting in the Rhenish Massif (Germany)	2
Convergent evolution of defensive appendages – a lithobiomorph-like centipede with a scolopendromorph-type ultimate leg from about 100 million-year-old amber	2
An updated look at the taxonomy, stratigraphy, and palaeoecology of the Devonian bivalve genus Ontaria Clarke, 1904 (Cardiolidae, Bivalvia)	2

Marsupials (Herpetotheriids) from the late Palaeogene of south-east Serbia	2
New ammonoid records and the definition of the base of the German Hemberg-Stufe (Famennian III, Upper Devonian)	2
A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)	2
Changes in macrofaunal groups before, during and after the Cenomanian–Turonian biotic crisis in north Eastern Desert, Egypt	2
The earliest large carpenter bee (Xylocopa) and its adhering pollen (Araliaceae, Theaceae)	2
New late Oligocene rodent faunas from the Pannonian basin	2
Late Devonian (Famennian) phacopid trilobites from western Xinjiang, Northwest China	2
The porcupine Hystrix parvae (Kretzoi, 1951) from the Late Miocene (Turolian, MN11) of Kohfidisch in Austria	2
Plant-insect interaction from the Middle Jurassic Haifanggou Formaton in Huludao, western Liaoning and its geological implications	2
Investigation of the possible role of the Central Paratethys as a migration route and speciation area of the ancestors of Mediterranean Larroussius, Paraphlebotomus and Phlebotomus species	2
Ancylotherium pentelicum (Mammalia, Chalicotheriidae) from the late Miocene of Kerassia (Greece) and remarks on its intraspecific variability	2
Palynoflora and palaeoclimate of the late Early Jurassic (Toarcian) in eastern Liaoning, China	2
Fenestrate bryozoan fauna from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (western Rhenish Massif, Germany)	2
A middle Eocene treefall pit and its filling: a microenvironmental study from the onset of a forest mire in the Geiseltal (Germany)	2
Quantitative morphological comparison of rake-legged mites over the last 100 million years and the first fossil larva of Caeculidae	2
Iridescent harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae) from the Eocene of Messel, Germany	2